Dr. Claudio Legnani is an orthopedist and researcher at the Center for Sports Traumatology and Minimally Invasive Joint Surgery at the Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi. He graduated in medicine and surgery at the University of Milan in 2007, where in 2013 he specialized in orthopedics and traumatology. He treats a wide spectrum of joint pathologies, from meniscal repair to cartilage disorders. His clinical activity currently focuses on the treatment of knee and foot and ankle disorders, addressed mainly through a minimally invasive and arthroscopic approach. Furthermore, he performs partial and total knee replacement surgery. In addition to clinical practice, his research work over the years has mainly focused on the diagnosis and treatment of anterior cruciate ligament pathology and its reconstructive techniques. He has studied ankle pathology in depth, and the scientific works to which he has contributed have been presented at national and international conferences. He has published more than 50 papers in international journals over the last decade.
Dr. Alberto Ventura has been head of the Center for Sports Traumatology and Minimally Invasive Joint Surgery at the Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi in Milan since 2016. His training continued in the United States where, at the end of the 1980s, he studied at the University of Pittsburgh (in Pennsylvania), attending research laboratories in the orthopedic field and accumulating experience in the physical therapy, rehabilitation, and operating room departments. In this way, he learned those techniques relating to arthroscopic knee, shoulder, and ankle surgery, which became fundamental elements of his career. Among the numerous recognitions obtained, in 1990 he was awarded the qualification of Doctor Expert in Hyperbaric Therapy by the Italian Society of Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine. Two years later the Presidency of the Lombardy Region awarded him the qualification of Competent Doctor in Occupational Medicine. He is a member of prestigious expert groups such as the Italian Sports Medicine Federation; the Italian Knee, Arthroscopy, Sports, Cartilage and Orthopedic Technologies Society (SIGASCOT); the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS); and the European Society Sport Knee Arthroscopy (ESSKA).
Prof. Laura Mangiavini is an orthopedist at the University Team of Regenerative and Reconstructive Orthopedics (E.U.O.R.R.) at the IRCCS Galeazzi Hospital—Sant'Ambrogio. She graduated in medicine and surgery at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in 2007. In 2013 she obtained her specialization in orthopedics and traumatology at the University of Milan-Bicocca. From 2011 to 2015, she worked in several research laboratories in the United States (Boston, Indianapolis, and Ann Arbor), focusing on the development of cartilage and bone. Since 2018, she has obtained the title of associate professor at the Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health at the University of Milan. She is currently responsible for the research activity of the E.U.O.R.R. operational unit of the Galeazzi Institute. She deals with traumatic and degenerative pathologies of the shoulder and knee and also treats degenerative pathologies of the hip. In her research activity, she is interested in tissue engineering techniques for the regeneration of cartilage, bone, and meniscus.
Prof. Giuseppe M. Peretti is the director of the Complex Operative Unit and head of the University Team of Regenerative and Reconstructive Orthopedics (E.U.O.R.R.) at IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi in Milan; he is a full professor of the Orthopedic Clinic at the University of Milan and a consultant orthopedist at the Casa di Cura La Madonnina, where he deals with regenerative medicine in orthopedics, articular cartilage lesions, hip and knee surgery, sports traumatology, and arthroscopic surgery. In addition, he is dedicated to the treatment of articular cartilage lesions and regenerative medicine in the orthopedic field, with arthroscopic surgery and sports traumatology, as well as hip and knee prosthetic surgery. Since 2015, he has been director of the Orthopedics and Traumatology Specialization School, University of Milan, which has the largest number of specialists in orthopedics and traumatology in Italy. He graduated from the State University of Milan with honors. Then, he worked as a researcher for 5 years at Harvard University in Boston (USA), where he conducted numerous studies in the repair of articular cartilage and menisci. He is the chairman of several scientific committees of international and national societies (ESSKA, TERMIS, SIGASCOT, ISSPORTH, and SICOOP).
